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Fools (201-250)

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He is fool enough that is not melancholy once a day. — English
He that teaches himself has a fool as his master. — English
He who is born a fool is never cured. — English
He who is his own teacher has a fool for his pupil. — German
He is a great fool who forgets himself. — French
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He is a fool that praises himself, and he is a madman that speaks ill of himself. — Danish
He is a fool that deals with fools. — English
He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice. — African (Oji)
He is a fool who does not know from what quarter the wind blows. — Italian
He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist. — English
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He is a fool who does not consider his own interests. — Maltese
He is not a wise man that cannot play the fool. — English
He that knows when he has enough is no fool. — English
He that is heady is ruled by a fool. — English
He does a good day's work who rids himself of a fool. — French
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He who forces love where none is found, remains a fool the whole year round. — German
He is a fool who makes his physician his heir. — French
He is fool enough himself who will bray against another ass. — English
He is a fool that thinks not that another thinks. — English
He is a fool who thinks that another does not think. — Italian
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He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist. — French
He that is well sheltered is a fool if he stir out into the rain. — English
He that sends a fool means to follow him. — English
He that cheats in small things is a fool; but in great things is a rogue. — English
He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him. — Danish
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He is a fool that forgets himself. — English
He that talks to himself talks to a fool. — English
He's a fool that is wiser abroad than at home. — English
Honor is unseemly for a fool. — English
Hope often blinks at a fool. — English
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Hope is the mother of fools. — Polish
Hope and expectation are a fool's income. — Danish
Hoping and waiting makes fools out of clever people. — Yiddish
However foolish the monkey it will not play with the thorn tree. — African (Hausa)
If there were no knaves and fools, all the world would be alike. — English
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If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools. — English
If the fool knew how to be silent he could sit among the wise. — Czech
If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap. — Dutch
If you keep calling a man a fool, he will become one. — Armenian
If folly were grief, every house would weep. — English
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If a fool holds the cow by the horns, a clever man can milk her. — Yiddish
If a fool has a hump nobody notices it; if the wise man has a pimple everybody talks about it. — Russian
If a fool could keep silent he would not be a fool. — Swedish
If folly were pain, there would be groaning in every house. — Spanish
If you look around the room and can't tell who the fool is, it's you. — American
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If it were not for fools in this world there would be no reason. — Russian
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. — English
It is better to marry a quiet fool than a witty scold. — English
It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. — English
It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. — Ethiopian
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